Thank you so much for the wonderful feedback. I was so elated that I finally can login via my laptop again that I just couldn't keep you dangling with a series of cliffhangers.
I hope you'll like the last chapter. I think that should wrap up most dangling threads. To wrap up all of them I would have to use the Shakespearean solution: everybody dies.
We wouldn't want that, now would we?

Part 16 is up